Truth about Glutathione

TRUTH ABOUT GLUTATHIONE 

Now a days every one wants to have fairer skin. Every person wants his color to be white. So various types of the products are sold in the market. Various skin lightning creams, gels ,home remedies are used to get fairer skin.

So a new product had came in the market to have fairer skin.This product is known as glutathione. Most of the people who want fairer skin uses glutathione.

First of all we should have knowledge of that on which factors the color of skin depends upon. Rather than genetics it also depends upon one of the most important factor i.e. melanin. Melanin is that pigment which decides the color of our skin, eyes and hairs. Melanin is produced from the cell named as Melanocyte cell. When melanocyte cell produces more melanin our skin becomes much darker. If we have lack of melanin our skin color will be lighter. So our skin color directly depends on that how much amount of melanin is present in our body. As in the sun exposure melanocyte cell secretes much melanin so our skin gets darker in exposure of sun which is known as tanning in the common language.
Commonly there are two types of melanin :- eumelanin and phenomenal. Eumelanin leads to the darker skin color. As in the exposure of sun a person gets darker skin due to eumelanin only. Pheomelanin gives red color to our skin . Our skin looks like sun burnt due to pheomelanin. When sun exposure is not continuous it leads to pheomelanin instead of eumelanin and our skin looks reddish. Pheomelanin is not able to protect us from UV rays so it results in skin cancer. But in Asian skin due to presence of much amount of eumelanin our skin does not get skin cancer and our skin gets darker when exposed in sun. Our skin color depends upon that how much amount of pigments of eumelanin and pheomelanin are present in our body.

Now let we see that how actually glutathione works for skin lightning and what it actually is. Glutathione is a natural antioxidant which is available in all animals, plants, bacteria, virus etc. It is also known as Master antioxidant. It is made up of Cysteine, Glycine, Glutamine acid named Amino acid. This chemical works act as anti melanogenic which helps in skin whitening. Glutathione also works in our different cellular functions of the body. It does not only helps in skin whitening but as glutathione is powerful anti oxidant so it protects us  from the oxidative stress and damage which we get due to free radical. It also helps us in improving our immune system.

Glutathione is present in our body in oxidized or reduced form. For skin whitening the Glutathione stops the enzyme known as tyrosinase which helps in melanin synthesis. So it blocks tyrosinase. So due to glutathione eumelanin converts into pheomelanin so it results in lighter color of the skin. Glutathione also have anti ageing properties. So it is used in anti ageing treatment also.

Now we will see that how glutathione is provided to people. It can be used in the form of tablet, liquid, spray. but main problem is that it does not absorb in our body easily .So glutathione is suggested to take when a person has empty stomach so that it may absorb easily. Glutathione is also available in the form of soaps , gel, serum and creams to us but action is seen very slowly in this case. Third method of giving glutathione is by its injection. It is the most effective method because glutathione is directly sent into the blood.So absorption of glutathione in blood is most. Glutathione injections are always taken in the supervision of the expert doctors.

But the effectiveness of glutathione is checked in small sample size. Proper research is not done for checking demerits and effects of glutathione. It is approved drug for severe liver toxicity and neurotoxicity. But is not approved for the Skin whitening. More important thing is that results are reversible when person stops taking treatment  i.e. skin again gets darker or tan. So it becomes important for a person to take its injections every month. As it is costly so most of the patients are not able to afford it every month . Moreover no scientific research is done to see that how it effects our body when taken for a long period of time.

Take L Acetylcysteine instead of glutathione because helps to make glutathione in our body.But when glutathione is taken it does not dissolve in our body.